Presiding Deities: Sri Sri Radha-Madhava, Sri Sri Pancha-tattva and Srila Prabhupada.
Temple Style: Residential two-storey Filipino-style house. Originally designed as a Protestant church, it was renovated to include an altar for Sri-Sri-Radha-Madhava, as well as two kitchens—one for the Deities, and one for the devotees and locally run Food For Life program.
Number of visitors: Seventy to eighty people during a normal week, 150 to 200 during smaller festivals, and 1,200 to 1,500 on major festival days such as Janmastami. Number of residents: 11
The story of ISKCON’s temple in Makati City—one of the seventeen cities comprising the Manila metropolitan area of the Philippines—begins with head pujari Baladeva Dasa and temple administrator Radha Lila Dasi having a dream to invite Sri Sri Radha-Madhava to their city.
In early 2006, the two received the blessings of Philippines Governing Body Commisioner Giridhari Swami to establish a permanent temple in the Manilaarea—a dream that had also long been cherished by the late Tamal Krishna Goswami.
With the advice of Jananivasa and Pankajanghri, the head priests at Sri Sri Radha-Madhava’s original home in Mayapur, India, Baladeva Dasa approached the same sculptor in Jaipur who had carved Mayapur’s presiding Deities. Soon, their namesakes, Sri Sri Radha-Madhava, appeared from black and pure white marble respectively.
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